From Loss To Love Box Set by Gabrielle Snow

Author:Gabrielle Snow
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Gabrielle Snow
Published: 2020-04-04T22:00:00+00:00

“MADELEINE,” HANK CALLED out, stretching out across his couch. “Could you come in here for a moment?”

She was a fleeting shadow outside his door, holding her breath, so as not to disturb him, but he’d seen her anyway, trying to make her way up the stairs for some shut eye.

Seconds later, she stood at the door to his study, her hands clasped behind her back, her expression neutral. “You wished to see Mr. Lorum?”

Hank set down the drink from his hand and patted the seat next to him, turning his attention away from the fireplace and towards her. He smiled up at her, a lazy smile that stretched from ear to ear, his blood singing in his ears, head swimming.

Madeleine looked reluctant, but eventually took several steps then perched near the edge, her back ramrod and straight. “I’d like to stand, if that’s okay.”

“We’re not in the military,” Hank joked, his words slurring together. “You can unclench and relax your shoulders.”

Madeleine pressed her mouth into a thin line but said nothing.

“Look, I know I haven’t behaved in the best way, and you deserve better than that,” Hank began. “It’s just that I’ve never been in this situation before.”

“I’m not a situation,” Madeleine responded, flatly. “I’m a human being, and I deserve the truth.”

Hank pressed his fingers to his temples, a headache beginning in the back of his skull. “You’re right, you do, and I don’t mean you’re a situation. I mean the position we’re in. You’re my employee, my daughter’s nanny for Christ’s sake, there’s no way around that.”

“I am aware of my position.”

Hank squinted. “No, you don’t understand. I don’t want it to seem like I’m taking advantage of you. I don’t care that you’re the nanny. The only thing I worry about is Geraldine. I don’t want her to be affected by this.”

Madeleine’s features softened, her shoulders sagging. “I don’t want her to be affected either.”

“Please come and sit,” Hank repeated, hating the plea in his voice. She sighed and dropped onto the couch, keeping a few inches between them, a few wayward locks of hair escaping her up-do.

Of their own accord, his hands reached forward, and he found himself tucking the hair behind her ear, briefly lingering nearly the dimple before he drew away, the knot in his stomach unfurling.

“So, what are we going to do?” Madeleine whispered, fixing her gaze on a spot in front of her, her hands clenched next to her, hardly breathing. “I don’t regret it, if that’s what you’re thinking.”

“I don’t regret it either,” Hank informed her. “But I do apologize for my behavior afterwards. It wasn’t nice of me.”

“No, it wasn’t,” Madeleine agreed.

“I’ll make it up to you,” Hank vowed, craning his neck to look at her, studying her features, illuminated by the soft light emanating from the lamp in the corner of the room, his fingers itching to touch her delicate skin, to reacquaint himself with her mouth.

Frustrated, he withdrew his hands and placed them underneath his thighs, not trusting himself to behave in the slightest.

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